Electronic visa program in Brazil for US, Japan, Canada and Australia visitors

Visiting Brazil will soon become easier for international travelers under a new electronic visa program, starting on January 15. The entire visa process to tourists coming from the U.S., Canada, Australia and Japan will be doable online, and concluded within an estimated 72 hours. Read full article

REF: Sounds ominous: Of course it DOES! The article MAY have SOME element of truth if the existing Band of Crooks go on fooling around.

REF: why is the right wing so damn predictable, always hating on the same groups: Good question - needs pondering but the immediate/obvious response is the opportunity to grab power, whenever the opposition shows clear signs of weakness & unpopularity - I suppose - no matter how wrongly. Power+Money makes a heady, addictive & thereby, a tempting combination. It's the Same - EVERYWHERE and NO country is immune to this cocktail.

I don't know. Sometimes it's obvious how finding a group to blame helps politicians keep or gain power, like the Chavistas in Venezuela blaming America for their problems and Trump blaming America's problems on immigrants and China.

But in this case it's less clear. Maybe it's just that anyone who doesn't conform to their narrow ideas threatens to cause change, and since these people are doing very well with things as they are, they want to avoid that.